The week's highlights: Will Orlando model Charlotte McKinney survive the first ejection on "Dancing With the Stars"? Will Sue be accepted by a college on "The Middle"? Who will win at the Kids' Choice Awards?
Here's a list of coming attractions: ...

"We're playing a dangerous game, detective."
Rule of thumb: When a video game character warns you about the game itself, you're in for some grade-A cheese. And "Battlefield Hardline" (Electronic Arts, for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One,...

Theatre West has revived Jim Beaver’s play “Verdigris,” a hit for the company 30 years ago, about a young man’s absorption into an offbeat Oklahoma family in the summer of 1972.
In his program note, Beaver, who’s also an...

Welcome to the inevitable, basically customary, shifting allegiances episode that comes but once a "Justified" season.
Harlan County has long been a place where promises are as good as Confederate money. The show loves to make strange bedfellows, most...

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NCIS Robert Wagner returns as DiNozzo's (Michael Weatherly) father, who lends his art expertise when the team investigates a murder connected to a rare painting that turns out to have been swapped with a copy, prompting a probe of the world of black-market art dealing. Mark Harmon stars in this...

Vince Gilligan, who created "Breaking Bad," and David Shore, who created "House," have a new show together, a semi-comical, sometimes dramatic police show called "Battle Creek."
Based on a 10-year-old unproduced script by Gilligan, it premieres Sunday on CBS, home of the world's most successful procedural franchises (your "CSI," your "NCIS"). This is mostly not like those, in ways that I would call good. But it is also a little like them and other shows of its substantial ilk.
It is also mostly not...

Harlan County may be on its deathbed, but the writing staff over at “Justified” is giving the town one hell of a eulogy, managing to peek back on some of the lives we’ve stepped in and out of over the years, even in the midst of what’s supposed to be Raylan and Boyd’s climactic tilt in the withering coal country.
On most other shows, an episode such as “Sounding” would have been a paint-by-numbers race against the clock, with Raylan running all over Harlan to...

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The Big Bang Theory The guys are excited over the reopening of the comic book store, but a shocking development for Wolowitz and Bernadette (Simon Helberg, Melissa Rauch) derails their celebration. Nathan Fillion ("Firefly") guest stars in this new episode. 8 p.m. CBS
The Slap The situation...

Well, that didn’t take long.
Just four episodes into "Justified's" swan song, both Raylan and Boyd seem to be wandering from their missions to escape Harlan, as they make moves in “The Trash and the Snake” that would seem to prolong their stay in the dying coal town.
Whether it’s a conscious decision or just part of his inability to choose family over the mission, Raylan ignores the lesson from the parable that gives the episode its name, opting to go head-to-head with the...